// archives

Prayer

RSS feed for this section
This category contains 2914 posts

Disclaimer

‘Let no one who is not eager for truth and peace enter here’ (Plato)

Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Starvation in Zimbabwe

By and others ⋅ November 22, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Amnesty International The Wire – November 2004 Unfair food distribution in Zimbabwe means millions of people may go hungry Millions of people in Zimbabwe are going hungry as access to food continues to diminish. Until mid-2004 international food aid programmes provided much needed relief. But international food aid stopped when the government of Zimbabwe told […]

Belarus; Kosovo; Russia; Uzbekistan

By and others ⋅ November 21, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief 17 November 2004 BELARUS: MOST – BUT NOT ALL – COMMUNITIES RE-REGISTERED http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=454 Most religious communities denied state re-registration are Protestant, Forum 18 […]

19 November 2004 Update From HCJB World Radio

By and others ⋅ November 21, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Thanks for choosing to receive e-mail from HCJB World Radio. Please add to your e-mail address book or safe sender list to ensure that you receive these e-mails. Today’s Headlines: IMPRISONED VIETNAMESE CHRISTIAN HOSPITALIZED WITH ‘MENTAL DISEASE’ CLOSING OF CHURCH IN MUSLIM AREA OF INDONESIA SPARKS PUBLIC DEBATE INTERNATIONAL AID HELPS RESTORE BASIC SERVICES IN […]

Indonesan Military in Papua

By and others ⋅ November 21, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Indonesian military’s tactics slammed The Indonesian military were attempting to “East Timorise” the unsettled province of Papua by fomenting civil unrest, a human rights coalition said. There was evidence the army’s crack Kopassus troops were behind an incident in the remote highlands last week in which a policeman was killed and two government officials wounded, […]

Children of War in Africa

By and others ⋅ November 21, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Children of war: Africa’s civil conflicts harm 100,000 young lives By Meera Selva in Nairobi 18 November 2004 More than 100,000 children have been abducted, tortured and sexually abused before being recruited to fight in Africa’s long-running civil wars in the past three years, a report revealed yesterday. Teenage boys and girls forced to join […]

Iraq: Churches Bombed, Christians Threatened

By and others ⋅ November 21, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin – No. 297 – Wed 10 Nov 2004 ——————————————– IRAQ: CHURCHES BOMBED, CHRISTIANS THREATENED ——————————————– On Monday evening 8 November, car bombs exploded almost simultaneously at two churches in the Doura neighbourhood of southwest Baghdad. Three people were killed and some 50 wounded, mostly nearby residents. The dead and injured were […]

Good news for Orthodox in Turkey?

By and others ⋅ November 19, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

This column was syndicated by Scripps Howard News Service on 07/07/2004 ISTANBUL — There are two front gates into the walled compound that protects the home of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians. Visitors enter through a door secured by a guardhouse, locks and a metal-screening […]

18 November 2004 Update From HCJB World Radio

By and others ⋅ November 19, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Thanks for choosing to receive e-mail from HCJB World Radio. Please add to your e-mail address book or safe sender list to ensure that you receive these e-mails. Today’s Headlines: MAOIST REBELS IN NEPAL CONTINUE TO TARGET CHRISTIANS TERRORIST ATTACK LEAVES IRAQI PASTOR PARALYZED FROM CHEST DOWN ISLAM SPREADS IN SOUTH AFRICA, ESPECIALLY IN BLACK […]

Ivory Coast: Christians Anxious as War Threatens

By and others ⋅ November 19, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin – No. 298 – Wed 17 Nov 2004 ————————————————- IVORY COAST : CHRISTIANS ANXIOUS AS WAR THREATENS ————————————————- When mostly Muslim rebels (backed with foreign funds and arms) seized control of northern Ivory Coast (IC) in 2002, Christians, southerners and government supporters fled south for their lives. As those fleeing included […]

17 November 2004 Update From HCJB World Radio

By and others ⋅ November 18, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Thanks for choosing to receive e-mail from HCJB World Radio. Please add to your e-mail address book or safe sender list to ensure that you receive these e-mails. Today’s Headlines: CHINA TIGHTENS CONTROL ON RELIGION AS ARRESTS ESCALATE WORLD VISION REOPENS CLINICS IN LIBERIA AFTER YEARS OF CIVIL WAR OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD AIMS TO COLLECT […]

« Previous — Next »